Skip to content
ScienceBlog.com
  • Follow us on Threads!
  • Our Bloggers
  • Google News
  • Substack
  • FaceBook
  • Contribute/Contact
  • Search

University of Pennsylvania

Figure 1. The percentage of holiday-season newspaper stories supporting the false holiday-suicide myth from 1999-2000 through 2022-23. Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center.

What’s behind the holiday-suicide myth

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Life & Non-humans
Donald Trump artwork

Holding Trump accountable will not threaten American democracy

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Social Sciences
Myeloma cells producing monoclonal proteins of varying types, created by Scientific Animations under the Creative Commons Attributions-Share Alike International 4.0 License

RNA nanoparticle therapy stops the spread of incurable Multiple myeloma bone cancer

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Health
white blood cells. Pixabay

Engineered Cells Teach Immune System to Target and Eliminate Solid Tumor Cancers

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Health
African American students

Young children develop better learning skills when taught by teachers of the same ethnicity, national US study suggests

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania studied sperm biogenesis in the marmoset, a small monkey species. Providing marmoset inducible pluripotent stem cells with appropriate growth conditions and signals, they were able to coax the cells to begin to resemble primordial germ cells, the precursors of sperm and eggs, that are found in marmoset embryos.

Rewiring blood cells to give rise to precursors of sperm

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Health
Liver illustration

Nanoparticle stops liver fibrosis in its tracks, reverses damage

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Health
Sad woman with face in hands

Restricted abortion access linked to increased suicide risk in young women

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences
gut microbes illustration

Gut microbes can boost the motivation to exercise

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
Woman in snow.

Holiday-suicide myth persists in media

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Survey panel respondents who reported greater belief in vaccine misinformation (had a higher vaccine misinformation score) were less likely to recommend vaccination for a 5- to 11-year-old – and as the probability of recommending vaccination increased, belief in vaccine misinformation decreased. Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Misinformation about vaccine safety drives reluctance to vaccinate children, study finds

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences

Deep brain stimulation shows promise against binge eating disorder

University of Pennsylvania
Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology
Older posts
Page1 Page2 Page3 Next →

Bloggers

  • Top space telescope from Europe seeks to solve riddles of the universe
  • Smoke stacks in the distanceSulphuric Shadows
  • Disasters at sea trigger ship-safety advances
  • Fighting extreme weather with extreme computing power
  • Expected rise in fossil fuel use this decade could offset action to me…
  • A leader in the climate age: America’s ‘essential’ railroad network

Archives

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
© 2023 ScienceBlog.com | Follow our RSS / XML feed